[59303] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Oh where, oh where has Comcast gone
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vinny Abello)
Tue Jun 24 08:39:27 2003
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 08:38:54 -0400
To: Matt Hess <mhess@solarius.org>
From: Vinny Abello <vinny@tellurian.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3EF801A3.90108@solarius.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
I actually noticed this morning when trying to check my mail that their
mail server is now SSL capable out of the blue. Interesting...
At 03:45 AM 6/24/2003, Matt Hess wrote:
>Well, I do know, as a customer, they are going through a large att ->
>comcast.net transition period right now.. they even left a poorly thought
>out automated message on my answering machine to let me know that on june
>30th they plan on royally screwing up everything.. now naturally they
>didn't say that but that message sure didn't leave much room for any hope
>of contacting support that week if need be..
>
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>
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>John R Levine wrote:
>>I saw a bunch of mail to comcast.net bouncing, so I figured I'd check to
>>see if maybe their mail servers were misconfigured or something. Holy
>>petunias, they've imploded into private network space.
>>It appears that the glue records in the GTLD servers are OK, but ns02 is
>>returning the 172.30 address which, since it's authoritative for itself,
>>overwrites the good data. Tsk, tsk. I suppose that's one way to cut down
>>the amount of spam they get.
>>$ dnsqr ns comcast.net
>>2 comcast.net:
>>76 bytes, 1+2+0+0 records, response, noerror
>>query: 2 comcast.net
>>answer: comcast.net 4929 NS ns01.jdc01.pa.comcast.net
>>answer: comcast.net 4929 NS ns02.jdc01.pa.comcast.net
>>$ dnsqr a ns01.jdc01.pa.comcast.net
>>1 ns01.jdc01.pa.comcast.net:
>>59 bytes, 1+1+0+0 records, response, noerror
>>query: 1 ns01.jdc01.pa.comcast.net
>>answer: ns01.jdc01.pa.comcast.net 4923 A 172.30.0.16
>>$ dnsqr a ns02.jdc01.pa.comcast.net
>>1 ns02.jdc01.pa.comcast.net:
>>59 bytes, 1+1+0+0 records, response, noerror
>>query: 1 ns02.jdc01.pa.comcast.net
>>answer: ns02.jdc01.pa.comcast.net 4919 A 172.30.0.17
>>Regards,
>>John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for
>>Dummies",
>>Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://iecc.com/johnl, Sewer
>>Commissioner
>>"More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly.
>>
>
Vinny Abello
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